Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison is a freelance writer based in Barcelona who writes about history, food, and travel. You can find her recent work at Atlas Obscura, Narratively, and Smart Mouth, among others.

Pure athletic prowess wasn’t really the point—the People’s Olympiad was about cultivating a spirit of equality, in direct contrast to Nazi ideals.

The 'Protest' Olympics That Never Came to Be

A leftist response to the 1936 Games being held in Nazi Germany, the proposed competition was canceled by the Spanish Civil War

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